A Newer Species of Trouble
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When the lines between natural and technological disasters become blurred— and ultimately erased

A Night at the Bougainville Roxy
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America’s post-Depression enthusiasm for movies extended to its theaters of war

Any Way You Can
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This is what can happen when you’re abandoned in a war zone

Adding Wimsey to My Life
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How I fell in love with a fictional detective

Save the Meramec
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On law, literature, and the Indiana bat

Night Shade

After my husband died, why did he continue to haunt my dreams?  

Weekend Warriors

How are competitive kids’ sports changing America?

Thinking in the Margins

What Oliver Sacks jotted down in the books he read

Afloat Between Worlds

What is the meaning of the mystical visions that a sailor experiences at sea?

Why Lee Wiley? 
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The singer you need to hear now

One April Day

A death, a book, an art show, and a promise of magnolia blossoms

Haste Makes Waste

Which figures of speech will survive, and which will vanish?

Against Wind and Tide

On the Asturian coast of Spain, cold days and a warm greeting

“How Bad Is Your Pain?”

Notes on the nature of suffering

My Mentor

In remembrance of Ben Sonnenberg

(Full Disclosure)

Conflicts, more or less of interest

Waiting With Kipling

Kim, the Stoics, and the voices from my past

The Thing About Books

Why downsizing to a mere 650 boxes of them makes good sense

On Prayer

I’ve never tried it, but I suspect the world could use a lot more of it

Off to See the Wizard

Finding the virtues of Homer, Plato, and Jesus in Technicolor Oz

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